Not since he took “It’s Raining Men” off the jukebox...

At least they can sing!

She never did collect on the insurance...

I didn’t think there was anything wrong with Ms. Ryder’s performance, but there didn’t seem to be much point to the character.

Didn’t work out for them in the long term, though... Unless they let the Kresge’s buy them out long ago.

I’d have appreciated the thought, but I’d have probably preferred them just giving me the money and letting me go to a lower tier school.

I see it as relating to the name of the organization, not the profession. The latter, as in my examples, would be lower-case. I’d use lower-case for “bodyguard”, but upper case for “Swiss Guard”.

Logically I’d use the capital in reference to any body of naval infantry that formally refers to itself as “the Marines”, (the USMC, ROKMC, and Britain’s Royal Marines come to mind), and lower-case in generic reference to such troops (“Many larger warships ships carry a detachment of marines”). I guess you’re not wrong…

I always preferred the term “pop metal” over “hair metal/bands” for the genre — both because the “pop” epithet better described what distinguished them musically, and because the big hair aesthetic extended a lot more broadly in the ‘80s than just this particular metal-ish genre... Though Leppard, Poison, Crüe, and…

I found it baffling when Priest found itself the subject of that high-profile “subliminal message” lawsuit (specifically focused on a Spooky Tooth cover) — they were hardly a “grimdark”-themed band. The lyrics to “You’ve Got Another Thing Comin’” read like a Successories poster.

His paean to the joys of never working is the distillation of all the non-villainous aspects of his character to their absolute essence.

Perhaps Lee actually looked like that back in the ‘90s, when not wearing makeup...

I think it was set up as a disavowable black ops team. It’s just that it got deployed in the movie to deal with something out of its league because that threat was embarrassing to its handlers. A very bad idea, objectively speaking, but not something I’d put past evil “shadow government” types. The problem is that the…

As another agnostic, I find the calculus of original sin and redemption through Christ to be kind of archaic and disturbing. I can understand the concept of Christ as teacher of the path for a sinner to redemption. But the doctrinal insistence on collective guilt — on Christ’s suffering and death as being somehow mecha…

Well, it was kinda the only product-placement opportunity they had...

We spent the rest of the afternoon back in his room watching daytime television instead.

Well, I did qualify it as a destructive line for this episode. Somehow breaking the Principal’s own padlock seemed a little more in-your-face than burrowing through a wall. Though they did kind of mangle his cabinet with the crowbar anyway.

That’d be an interesting take on the whole thing -- In the MCU, there are only DC superhero comics, but they’re ultra-campy in the vein of the ‘60s TV show.

Saes neves eht lias nac uoy!

Attesting to his coolness, at least second-hand — I have relatives in south Jersey, where he apparently hailed from, and they said he often showed up at local low-rent events, like 7-11 openings. Very approachable and unaffected.